Nethyrmaul, Final Version

[Harrek]

It's so good I am anxious for your next WIP!

Same here. Love to see what you tackle next.

[youwashock]

Well...isn't this the most awesome thing I'll see this week. Guess I'll go home and come back on Monday.

 

Fantastic job doesn't cover it.

 

Mind? Blown.

[DixonGrfx]

Congrats buddy! Inspiration Gallery and the Store page! Nicely done sir. And the pictures look fantastic. Seeing this figure in person still makes the pictures look like they just can't reveal all your hard work and spectacular paint job.

[OneBoot]

Wow, congrats on being featured in the online store!!! Not one bit surprised to see it there, it's a stellar piece of work.

 

Huzzah!

--OneBoot :D

[ianofdoom]

Yeah, all through PAX Prime, I was mentioning this piece to people that looked at Nethyrmaul. Mostly how awesome and humbling it is, ha.Very impressed, sir.

[angrygerbil]

Wow, thank you for the compliments! I am most humbled!

[Draxism]

That is awesome!

Most excellent work!

[Ellyria]

Dude, this is epic! I love how subtle yet detailed and textured he is all at the same time.

 

The lighting and fog is awesome. I love how fragile his wings look.

 

The close up of his fleshy guts looks too real. Eww, eww, eww!

Edited September 17, 2013 by Ellyria

[zoroaster100]

Awesome job. There is a lot to admire, but my favorite thing is the way you got the fleshy parts to look slimy/fleshy.

[Darkmeer]

So, I'm going with "this wins the single category" on the Here there Be Dragons contest this year.

 

I'm going to go pick up my jaw. I saw bits of the WIP, and it was awesome, completed... it is in a category all its own.

[Rogue1138]

Incredible.

[spencerjohn]

And you didn't believe me when I said the dragon would eat the cow full of explosives....

 

Nethyrmaul = Dragon with really bad acid reflux/heartburn

 

Awesome job! Your next challenge is to take some much smaller skeletons and have blue light coming out of their skulls.

[Thes Hunter]

It is a beautiful, beautiful model, with everything just very well done.

 

I have one question about the 'heart beat' you mention in the video. Is that the double strobe in the light in the chest? I'm assuming you want to go for the lub-dub, heard on a heartbeat, but I am not sure the light pattern is screaming 'heartbeat' to me. I kinda picked it up as a vague flicker until you said heartbeat. Did you play around with just dimming or flashing the light at around 60 beats/minute? It looks like it's at about 30 right now. Maybe it's just me... but I don't know if the double sound of a single heartbeat translates as well into a double flash of a visual stimuli.

 

It's a minor nit-pick, and I almost hate to bring it up, because everything else is so breathtakingly fabulous.

[angrygerbil]

It is a beautiful, beautiful model, with everything just very well done.

 

I have one question about the 'heart beat' you mention in the video. Is that the double strobe in the light in the chest? I'm assuming you want to go for the lub-dub, heard on a heartbeat, but I am not sure the light pattern is screaming 'heartbeat' to me. I kinda picked it up as a vague flicker until you said heartbeat. Did you play around with just dimming or flashing the light at around 60 beats/minute? It looks like it's at about 30 right now. Maybe it's just me... but I don't know if the double sound of a single heartbeat translates as well into a double flash of a visual stimuli.

 

It's a minor nit-pick, and I almost hate to bring it up, because everything else is so breathtakingly fabulous.

 

 

It is more accurate in person, but likely not perfect. I've never tried to make a heartbeat out of light so I wasn't 100% sure how it would pan out. I reviewed seveal .WAV files and translated the highs, lows, and durations into my own arrays and it came out OK for the most part. I assume because he is so much bigger his heartbeat would be a lot slower. Don't hate nit-picking. That is what this forum is for and I find there is always something to learn from everybody. Thank you for the compliments on Mr. Nethyrmaul. He sits by my desk 24 hours a day, glowing in the darkness ominously plotting his revenge against whatever it was that killed him I suppose. :)

 

I've had to stop painting for a while. We put our house up for sale and painting is messy!!!

Edited September 18, 2013 by angrygerbil

[Thes Hunter]

You are correct sir, larger animals do have slower heart rates: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/984548?uid=3739680&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102659832753

 

An elephant's average is 30 bpm. I learn something new every day.